Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb-2.6

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb-2.6: (220 commits)
  USB: backlight, appledisplay: fix incomplete registration failure handling
  USB: pl2303: remove unnecessary reset of usb_device in urbs
  USB: ftdi_sio: remove obsolete check in unthrottle
  USB: ftdi_sio: remove unused tx_bytes counter
  USB: qcaux: driver for auxiliary serial ports on Qualcomm devices
  USB: pl2303: initial TIOCGSERIAL support
  USB: option: add Longcheer/Longsung vendor ID
  USB: fix I2C API usage in ohci-pnx4008.
  USB: usbmon: mask seconds properly in text API
  USB: sisusbvga: no unnecessary GFP_ATOMIC
  USB: storage: onetouch: unnecessary GFP_ATOMIC
  USB: serial: ftdi: add CONTEC vendor and product id
  USB: remove references to port->port.count from the serial drivers
  USB: tty: Prune uses of tty_request_room in the USB layer
  USB: tty: Add a function to insert a string of characters with the same flag
  USB: don't read past config->interface[] if usb_control_msg() fails in usb_reset_configuration()
  USB: tty: kill request_room for USB ACM class
  USB: tty: sort out the request_room handling for whiteheat
  USB: storage: fix misplaced parenthesis
  USB: vstusb.c: removal of driver for Vernier Software & Technology, Inc., devices and spectrometers
  ...

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diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-usb b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-usb
index a07c0f366f91..a986e9bbba3d 100644
--- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-usb
+++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-usb
@@ -159,3 +159,14 @@ Description:
                 device.  This is useful to ensure auto probing won't
                 match the driver to the device.  For example:
                 # echo "046d c315" > /sys/bus/usb/drivers/foo/remove_id
+
+What:           /sys/bus/usb/device/.../avoid_reset
+Date:           December 2009
+Contact:        Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.org>
+Description:
+                Writing 1 to this file tells the kernel that this
+                device will morph into another mode when it is reset.
+                Drivers will not use reset for error handling for
+                such devices.
+Users:
+                usb_modeswitch